Contributor(s): Author: Jeroen de Valk Finally: the ultimate revised, updated and expanded edition Chet Baker was a star at 23 years old, winning the polls of America\'s leading magazines. www.jeroendevalk.nl.
He also authored an acclaimed biography about tenor saxophonist Ben Webster. it\'s going to be definitive.\'\' Jeroen de Valk (1958) is a Dutch musician and journalist.
De Valk\'s writing is so straightforward as to be stark, yet this is just what makes it so rich." Jazzwise: , ... a number of enlightening interviews...\'\' Library Journal: , De Valk\'s sympathetic yet gritty rendering of Baker\'s Life blends well with his account of Baker\'s recording career.\'\' Cadence: , A classic of modern jazz biography. a believable portrait of Baker...
He turned his heart inside out, almost to the point of embarrassing his listeners.\'\' Jazz Times: , A solidly researched biography...
According to De Valk, Chet was first of all an incredible improviser; someone who could invent endless streams of melody., He delivered these melodies with a highly individual, mellow sound.
His death was not that mysterious.
For Chet was not the \'washed-up\' musician as portrayed in the \'documentary\' Let\'s Get Lost.
The result of all this is a book which clears up quite a few misunderstandings.
He read virtually every relevant word that was ever published about Chet and listened to every recording; issued or unissued.
De Valk spoke to Baker himself, his friends and colleagues, the police inspector who investigated his death and many others.
Now finally, here is Jeroen de Valk\'s thoroughly updated and expanded edition.
It was available in five languages. \'Chet Baker / His Life and music\' was Baker\'s first biography, published a year after Baker\'s passing in 1988.
But much of his later Life was overshadowed by his drug use and problems with the law.
Contributor(s): Author: Jeroen de Valk Finally: the ultimate revised, updated and expanded edition Chet Baker was a star at 23 years old, winning the polls of America\'s leading magazines
